Meaning of pelagic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
2. Of or pertaining to oceans.

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Examples

“Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.”

“The main fish⟳ species in freshwater ponds in China are silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella), etc. According to their live⟳ habitat, they can be divided relatively into pelagic and benthic fish⟳.”

“Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.”

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